Stand up to Trump: No oil drilling off New Jersey's coast | Editorial

This is an era of abundant energy and growing environmental risks, so the Trump Administration – which has mastered the dark art of compromising the practical future for the political present – has decided it would be the perfect time to hang a massive choker of oil rigs around the country’s neck.

The president has proposed opening up more than 90 percent of the waters surrounding the continental U.S. – that’s 100 million acres – to offshore drilling.

Currently, drilling is banned in 94 percent of the outer continental shelf, because our leaders are well-practiced in kill-the-drill efforts, and most politicians from …read more